Music:
Member Since: 9/20/2004
Band Website: SteveEspinola.com
Band Members: Steve Espinola: Vocals, piano, electric tennis racket, dotar.
With a rotating cast, sometimes including:
Debby Schwartz: Guitar
Raul Rothblatt: Cello
See also www.myspace.com/lookalikes for Steve's duo with Alex Wolf, and more songs.
Recently, Steve played on a bunch of recordings by the fabulous Sprinkle Genies . Check 'em out!
Also, The Teenage Prayers, now, live.
Steve and Malcolm Rollick improv'd together rather magically at one of her shows, and the song, "Don't Stop Reading Me the News" is on her myspace page if you click on her name, 30 words ago.
Steve also plays piano on a song at the myspace page of: Tom Warnick and the World's Fair , a great band. (Tom is the guitarist on "Bumbling Along.")
Influences: The Naugahide Henchmen; The Peptide Bondsmen; The Personality Disorderers; The Super Elastic Bubble Plastic Revival Snorters; The Haliburton-Hired Snipers, Afghanistan Office (a negative, working-against sort of influence, to be sure); The Post-Neo-Now Quartet featuring The Future Retroists; The Singaporean Gum Chewers.
Also Biff Rose, The International Antifolk Community, The Mommyheads, The Dan Emery Mystery Band, The Sprinkle Genies, The Roches, XTC, Mo Tucker, Sly and the Family Stone, Debby Schwartz/The Aquanettas, Harm Farm, The Holy Modal Rounders, The Fugs, The Shaggs, Rip Smops, The Shangri La's, Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams, Fatses Domino and Waller, Daniel Johnston, Brian Wilson, Citizen Helene, Fishbone, Sonya Hunter, Thelonious Monk, Dwight Do Peterson, Irma Thomas, The Kinks, Sun Ra, Kelly Kiyomi Caulk, Ben Hume, Steve Wynn and the Miracle Three, Stereolab (circa 1994), Peter Dizozza, Danny Kirwan, Elizabeth Cotten, Spike Jones, Mississippi John Hurt, Keith Moon, The Moldy Peaches, Jonathan Richman, Rowlf, Bionic Finger, Jimi Hendrix, Amy X. Neuburg, Charles Mingus, Jessica Kane, Fletcher Henderson (Don Redman era), Buddy Holly, Jeffrey Lewis, Manuel De Falla, Bing Crosby w/ The Mills Brothers (early 1930's), Dina Dean, Lou Christie, The Dixie Hummingbirds, Kimya Dawson, Chuck Berry, The Beatles, cub/Lisa Marr, Sport Murphy, Mary Ann Farley, Alex Wolf, Little Richard, Lach, Arthur Lee/Love, Smokey Robinson, Elyse Weinberg, Leadbelly, and several others.
Sounds Like: It's a Fats-Waller-shares-a-bong-with-Brian-Wilson- while-Marianne-Moore-buys-insurance-from-Wallace-Stevens- and-Isabella-Rossellini-eyes-Stanley-Tucci-in-Big-Night sort of hybrid.
Record Label: George The Couch Records
Type of Label: None
